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Bhāravi

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Hinduism and Tribal Religions

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Dāmodara

Introduction

Samskrit literature is renowned as one of the oldest and precious literatures available in the world today. This literature started flowing from the very ancient Vedas (Vedic texts) and got a strong foundation in the form of Laukika texts like Ramayana and Mahabharata.

The Samskrit Vāṅmaya (literature) is not just the texts that are written. It is said that the Goddess Sarasvatī who incarnated in the form of Vedas came into the earth in the form of colloquial Samskrit. Hence, the colloquial Samskrit is easy and understandable to the common man. The plays of the famous Samskrit poets like Kālidāsa are enacted even today that denotes the amount of influence on the people as well as the later poets.

The main and the influential part of the Samskrit literature: Kāvyas can be mainly divided into three parts.

  1. a.

    Gadya kāvyas (prose)

  2. b.

    Padya kāvyas (poetry)

  3. c.

    Champu kāvyas

These kāvyas are further divided into Mahakāvyas and Khanda kāvyas. There are five...

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  1. Karnataka Samskrit University, Bengaluru, KA, India

    Udayana Hegde

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  1. Dept of Anthropology, The University of North Texas Dept of Anthropology, Denton, Texas, USA

    Pankaj Jain

  2. The Graduate Theological Union , Berkeley, California, USA

    Rita Sherma

  3. Jamia Millia Islamia, Centre for the Study of Comparative Reli Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India

    Madhu Khanna

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Hegde, U. (2018). Bhāravi. In: Jain, P., Sherma, R., Khanna, M. (eds) Hinduism and Tribal Religions. Encyclopedia of Indian Religions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1036-5_650-1

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